Book 6: Miscellaneous
Section 7: Requests for Legal Assistance and Extradition of Criminals 352-368
Chapter 1: Requests for Legal Assistance 353-356
Article 353 If a foreign state wants to take measures to pursue an investigation into any offence by means of the judicial authorities in Iraq it must send a request to this effect through diplomatic channels to the Ministry of Justice and the request must be accompanied by a complete statement of the
circumstances of the offence, the evidence for the charge the paragraphs of the law which apply and a detailed specification of the measures which it wishes to take.
Article 354
A. If the Ministry of Justice considers that the request meets in full all its legal conditions and that its implementation does not contravene the public regime in Iraq, it will refer it to the investigative judge in whose geographical area it falls in order to achieve the requested measures and a representative from the state requesting the legal assistance is permitted to come and carry them out.
B. The Ministry of Justice has the right to ask the state requesting the legal assistance to deposit an appropriate sum in order to cover witness expenses, experts' fees and charges for documents etc.
C. If he requested measures are carried out the investigative judge will submit the documents to the Ministry of Justice for forwarding to the foreign state. If the Iraqi judicial authorities request legal assistance from the judicial authorities in another state to carry out specific measures, the request win be submitted to the Ministry of Justice so that it can send it through diplomatic channels to the judicial authorities in that state; the judicial measures which are taken in accordance with this legal assistance will have the same legal effect they would- have had if they had been taken the judicial authorities in Iraq.
Book 6: Miscellaneous
Section 7: Requests for Legal Assistance and Extradition of Criminals 352-368
Chapter 1: Requests for Legal Assistance 353-356
Article 353 If a foreign state wants to take measures to pursue an investigation into any offence by means of the judicial authorities in Iraq it must send a request to this effect through diplomatic channels to the Ministry of Justice and the request must be accompanied by a complete statement of the
circumstances of the offence, the evidence for the charge the paragraphs of the law which apply and a detailed specification of the measures which it wishes to take.
Article 354
A. If the Ministry of Justice considers that the request meets in full all its legal conditions and that its implementation does not contravene the public regime in Iraq, it will refer it to the investigative judge in whose geographical area it falls in order to achieve the requested measures and a representative from the state requesting the legal assistance is permitted to come and carry them out.
B. The Ministry of Justice has the right to ask the state requesting the legal assistance to deposit an appropriate sum in order to cover witness expenses, experts' fees and charges for documents etc.
C. If he requested measures are carried out the investigative judge will submit the documents to the Ministry of Justice for forwarding to the foreign state. If the Iraqi judicial authorities request legal assistance from the judicial authorities in another state to carry out specific measures, the request win be submitted to the Ministry of Justice so that it can send it through diplomatic channels to the judicial authorities in that state; the judicial measures which are taken in accordance with this legal assistance will have the same legal effect they would- have had if they had been taken the judicial authorities in Iraq.
1. Los Estados Partes, de conformidad con lo dispuesto en la presente Parte y con los procedimientos de su derecho interno, deberán cumplir las solicitudes de asistencia formuladas por la Corte en relación con investigaciones o enjuiciamientos penales a fin de:
(a) Identificar y buscar personas u objetos;
(b) Practicar pruebas, incluidos los testimonios bajo juramento, y producir pruebas, incluidos los dictámenes e informes periciales que requiera la Corte;
(c) Interrogar a una persona objeto de investigación o enjuiciamiento;
(d) Notificar documentos, inclusive los documentos judiciales;
(e) Facilitar la comparecencia voluntaria ante la Corte de testigos o expertos;
(f) Proceder al traslado provisional de personas, de conformidad con lo dispuesto en el párrafo 7;
(g) Realizar inspecciones oculares, inclusive la exhumación y el examen de cadáveres y fosas comunes;
(h) Practicar allanamientos y decomisos;
(i) Transmitir registros y documentos, inclusive registros y documentos oficiales;
(j) Proteger a víctimas y testigos y preservar pruebas;
(k) Identificar, determinar el paradero o inmovilizar el producto y los bienes y haberes obtenidos del crimen y de los instrumentos del crimen, o incautarse de ellos, con miras a su decomiso ulterior y sin perjuicio de los derechos de terceros de buena fe; y
(l) Cualquier otro tipo de asistencia no prohibida por la legislación del Estado requerido y destinada a facilitar la investigación y el enjuiciamiento de crímenes de la competencia de la Corte.